In Spagna, quello che una volta sembrava impossibile è ormai diffuso: i giovani si stanno rivolgendo all’estrema destra
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/07/spain-young-voters-far-right-migration-housing-wages-employment-vox
di StGuthlac2025
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The times are giving them plenty of reasons.
Let’s call them all racist and ignore the underlying problems causing people to vote far right
With no perspective and seemingly no hope (the internet is full of doom posting) it’s sadly very easy to sell them a fantasy
It’s interesting that as a response to the damage caused by 45 years of practically global right-wing economic policy the youth are turning to …the right-wing …to fix them. Very, very poor analytical skills and frankly shocking level of economic literacy.
italian left found in a ditch after reading this news
Because they know shit about fascism and populism
Its the same here in Sweden. Very worrying when 20% of our voters support a political far right party that for 8 years ago was considered so racist and far right, none of our other parties even considered working with them. Today they have a large influence on our goverment and the future honestly feels very hopeless.
>how do we explain Vox’s growing appeal among a new generation of younger Spanish voters? There are several contributory factors, but two particular crises, badly mishandled by the biggest parties, …: the deadly floods in Valencia last year and this summer’s wildfires
>The last Spanish general election was in 2023 and the biggest concerns identified by Vox voters at the time were migration and “government and political parties”.
>polling shows that housing is the top concern for the population in general and even more so for anyone under 35. Wages, employment and the cost of living are mentioned too. Migration barely registers as an issue for younger voters.
Gosh this article is some AI-slop
The irony of thinking that VOX is going to solve any of your problems.
are there any studies on why (mostly) young males turn to the right so substantially in recent years?
I think there needs to be a distinction between young women and young men when discussing where that age group is leaning politically
I wonder why?
There are many things to blame for this not only in Spain but in the entire western world: Rising income and wealth inequality, skyrocketing housing costs, wage stagnation, ever higher taxes, cost of living crisis/inflation, social media, loneliness, a lack of meaning to life, austerity, immigration and a world that is changing at an exorbitant pace while many feel left behind.
There aren’t many options for us to do anything about it since the people profiting from this system (the wealthy) have done everything to prevent systemic change from ever happening.
How will all of this develop in the future? I don’t know but it looks like the moment we elect right wing extremists to positions of power, things will go south very quickly. We will just see a change like in Orban‘s Hungary: A right wing populist cleptocracy that controls everything while maintaining a thinly veiled charade they call democracy and keep their power by polarizing society and deflecting the blame to irrelevant topics
they only care about kicking out the moros
the “eh amego un cegarro” people
Consequences of not deplatforming the far-right.
Creeping Islamism exists.
Media outlets: “A mysterious unexplainable phenomenon! Must be racism!”
Letting millions of people with a literal Stone Age mentality into Europe, and then calling anyone who questions it a racist, really helped the right gain support among reasonable people.
I love everyone here asking “why” when the reason is right in front of your faces. Y’all refused to address the immigration issue. Intentionally made it worse. Now here you are.
So they wanna be like Hungary who is the poorest country in the EU? Lol
Believe it or not, discontent frequently leads to extremism
As much as I’d like to avoid seeing Europe steer that way, I can’t help but blame the current governments for it
Everything strives for the balance. After overly left comes overly right.
I always laugh at myself when I read European eastern countries saying that they don’t have real left parties because “communism”. Ok, I can understand. And then how in Earth spanish young people are willing to vote for this? Do they have parents? Grandparents? Do they know how life was with a fascist regime that didn’t let women get out of the kitchen? Where people couldn’t speak their own mother tongue? Where people were shot until the very last day of the regime in military trials for having different ideas? My father used to tell me that he shared ONE egg between all the siblings some days in the late 40s.
Democracy isn’t perfect, but man, understanding this is beyond my comprehension.
It’s only “what once seemed impossible” if your understanding of age-based political alignment is welded so firmly to the Anglosphere that you struggle seeing outside of the US and UK.
The youth vote for the hard right has been increasing in France, Germany, and Italy among others for quite a long time, why is it such a huge shock that Spain would see the same effect?
MOMMY MELONI I’M YOURS
Will forever blame social media for this.
Almost like propaganda is highly effective, and probably something we should be making illegal.
….Spain?
The one that had a fascist autocrat who peaceably ceded power to a king in late 70s?
Easier to blame immigrants for no jobs and expensive cost of living (rent especially) than blame the rich for causing it…
I mean we might all be super 1% rich one day so can’t blame them right….
No shit the right are growing, they make it easy to blame those below you than those above you…
Sad times ahead folks.
Yes immigration is a problem and needs dealing with but capitalism on this scale and greed is the real issue